Interesting article. I knew it was bad, but didn't know it had been that long since the last bad drought. The corn around here (southern Indiana) looks pretty bad. Some areas got some rain last weekend, so maybe the beans will have a chance. We just keep on praying. I personally am praying for enough rain to hopefully get some rebloom on my daylilies:) The year started so nice with the daylilies blooming a full month earlier than normal so I really thought extra rebloom was going to be possible this year. But Mother Nature had other ideas.

Karen, all that rain that has been going around us found us. We've had 5 plus inches since Thursday night. and probably more coming. You can almost see the lawns greening up with just that little bit.
I had to cut my raspberry wine bee balm back because the extreme heat had cooked the leaves plus they looked like they had mildew problems..some stems didn't even have any leaves left. I had seen 2 slugs on the garage siding but couldn't get to them to remove them, but I didn't see any evidence of their damage unless it was the leaveless stem..but I saw lots of new babies at the base of the bee balm plant, so while I'm disappointed, I'm okay with it. Regardless of how much you water with the hose, God's rain water is the best..doesn't have chlorine in it. Today it has been light soaking rain or light mist at times.

Yes Pippi, we got 1.3" of rain last week over 4 days. Some things perked up, others not. For a lot of stuff, I think it was too little, too late. I can't even remember when we had rain before that, and temps were in the 90 to 100+ degree range.

My monarda can be seen here growing in a pot a few weeks ago. It fried and is now compost food. I bought 3 new corydalis this year which are also toast now.

This is an astilbe, 15 or 20 years old. You can see fried columbine, too.

Frying gaura, didn't produce one flower this year.

Salvia nemorosa, wintersowed last year

I really feel for the farmers. My plants are just ornamentals. For farmers, it's their livlihood.